Critical Acclaim
On the Island
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David White
has been turning the heads of those who have heard him for a number of
years.
Raised in South America and Spain,
David is a critically acclaimed guitarist and innovative composer working in
a highly original modern vein. He has spent the last 18 years in New York
and Boston working with George Garzone, Valery Ponomarev, Jeff Ballard, John
Lockwood, and Tim Armacost, among many others. He has recorded 5 CDs as a
leader, toured extensively throughout North America and his music has been
widely reviewed and acclaimed for incorporating diverse influences from
Frank Zappa to Paul Hindemith to Led Zeppelin as a springboard for
arrangement and improvisation, prompting All About Jazz -Seattle
to write “White has staked out his own personal piece of the modern jazz
landscape”. His compositions push boundaries of form, use odd meters
dexterously, and range from post-modern mainstream to inspired free ensemble
improvisation. He makes his home now in the Pacific Northwest and works
frequently with his own band.
Listen.
Basics
Born: Stamford, CT, USA, March 16, 1960
Early Days: Argentina, Chile, New York City, Spain
Schooled: Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
Studies With: Charlie Shoemake
(LA), Joanne Brackeen (NYC)
Current Abode: Seattle, WA, USA
Jobs Held: Busboy, waiter, liquor store clerk,
newspaper deliverer, career counselor, headhunter, human resource guy, software
designer and salesman,
jazz improvisation teacher...more...
Performances With: George Garzone, Don Braden, Bobby
Bradford, Valery Ponomarev, Mickey Roker, Billy Higgins, Dick Berk, Yorun Israel, Carl
Burnett, Bob Magnusson, Ben Wolfe, John Lockwood, Jeff Ballard...
Locales Played: New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Hartford, Detroit, Cleveland, Rochester, St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans,
Austin, Meridian (Mississippi), Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego...
Critical Acclaim for David
White
"Found within these 11 original compositions are
oblique chord progressions, highly syncopated angular passages, rock and
jazz fusions at time earthy, at times brainy-intellectual. White’s
multi-faceted conception of modern jazz bears fruit, making this CD (Words
and Music) a must-listen for guitar aficionados.”
Jason West, All About Jazz
"The music of David White bears traces,
and then some, of early-60s Coltrane-esque urgency and primacy...He also uses changes in
meter dexterously...And unlike many of his fellow players of that instrument (guitar),
there is nothing glib or facile about his solos." James Isaacs, Boston.Sidewalk
"White's muffled, sometimes bluesy sound
is a refreshing change from the standard Montgomery/Scofield options...(he) remains the
most interesting voice (among the soloists) and it would be good to hear him in a trio
situation." Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (4th Edition)
"Thoughtful and exuberant bebop with a
deep groove is the main stock-in-trade...The leader's guitar definitively gives the band a
different sound with lush comping and an electric edge to his tone." IAJRC
Journal
"White has a nicely defined dynamic
sense, which is accentuated by his ability to shift rapidly between chunky chords and
suspended single notes." CODA
"White's guitar has a light buoyancy...
not unlike the early work of Tal Farlow..." Frankie Nemko, Jazz Times
"...The interplay of the musicians and
the fire with which they play is beyond categorization. This is music. It transcends
labels and fashion..." Richard Kamins, Cadence
"Superbly refreshing..." West
Coast Review
"Dafür klingen die Themen uns
Arrangements zu frisch und ideenreich." Jazz Live
"His guitar lines are fluid and melodic,
blessed with the raw edge that comes from listening to the ensemble sound rather than
merely concentrating on chops." Ben Watson, Hi Fi News
"This is complex music that does a lot
of intellectual things and still manages to sound good on a gut level...(White) alters the
rhythm and chord structure of a couple of jazz standards and presents the familiar
melodies in settings that make them sound new again." Robert Tate, Jazz Now
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